Hand-hold for reins



(No Model.)

G. F.- WHITING. HAND HOLD FOR REINS.

No. 501,308. Patented July 11, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. WI-IITING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAND-HOLD FOR REINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 501,308, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed March 30, 1893- To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. WHITING, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Holds for Reins and Attaching-Clips Therefor, of which the following is a specification;

This invention has for its object to provide a device adapted to be readily applied to and removed from harness reins, to hold portions of the reins in the form of loops so that the driver can more firmly grasp and hold the reins. The device may also be permanently attached to a loop separate from the rein, and employed to attach said loop to the rein.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification: Figure 1 shows the device permanently attached to a loop which is separate from the rein. Fig. 2 shows the attaching-clip. Fig. 3 illustrates a manner of using said clip. Fig. 4 shows another way of using the clip. Fig. 5 shows an edge view of the parts in Fig. 3.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention, I take a rod of stout wire and bend the same into the form shown in the drawings, the bending operation converting the rod into the parallel bars b b, the bars 12 connecting the bars b b at the ends of the device and the guards b formed on the bars at the opposite ends of the device. The bars I) b and b all lie in the same plane, While the guards b are diagonal to said plane and are arranged so that they stand substantially at right angles to the edges of the portions of the reins that extend across them, as shown. The bars I) b are separated by spaces, which are of such width that two plies of the rein can be inserted easily into each space and passed over the central bar b, as shown, the width of said slots being preferably twice the thickness of either of the said bars.

The device is applied to a loop a by permanently fastening the middle bar I) to said loop, and this loop may be attached to arein by engaging the clip with the latter, as illustrated in Fig. 1, where the rein is indicated in broken lines as passing under the two end- Serial No. 468,266- (No modeL) bars of the clip and over the middle-bar thereof. The lateral projections b prevent the rein and clip from becoming disengaged by sidewise movement.

The device is also used by inserting two plies of a doubled-over portion of the rein into the spaces between the bars, as shown, the upper ply bearing on the under sides of the bars b',while the under ply bears on the upper side of the bar b. A portion of the rein is thus held in the form of a loop at, which may be grasped by the driver. The pull exerted on the rein causes the plies to bear so closely on the bars I) b as to prevent the rein from slipping. The wide spaces between the bars permit the easy application and removal of the device, as will be readily seen.

Figs. 3 and 5 illustrate another manner in which a hand-hold may be formed of the rein itself, and securely maintained by the clip. This is accomplished by twice doubling the rein c, and engaging the three resulting thicknesses of the strap under the end-bars b and over the middle-bar, while one loop 0 is carried around one end-bar, and the other loop c constitutes the hand-hold.

By making the device from a rod of wire bent to the desired shape, I reduce the cost of construction, and give the recurring spaces wide mouths or outer ends, so that the reins can be readily inserted therein.

I am aware that a rein-holder having three parallel bars, two connecting bars at right angles with the parallel bars, all located in the same plane, and downwardly-projecting guards on the outer bars, is not new; but I am the first to make a rein-holder by bending a rod of wire into the described form and separating the bars by spaces of sufficient width to easily receive two plies of a rein, so that the device can be easily slipped onto and off from the rein.

I claim- The improved rein-holding device, consisting of three parallel bars, end-bars one at one end and the other at the opposite end of the device, and diagonal guards formed on the ends of two of the bars, all made of a single rod or piece of wire bent into the form shown,

the three parallel bars and the end-bars be- I00 ing all in the same plane, while the guards name to this specification, in the presence of are arranged substantially at right angles to two subscribing Witnesses, this 25th day of the edges of the plies of the rein, the parallel March, A. D. 1893.

bars being separated by spaces of sufficient GEORGE F. WHITING. 5 width to easily receive two plies of the rein, Witnesses:

as set forth. A. R. HOWES,

In testimony whereof I have signed my 1 FRED E. WHITING. 

